BOULDER TOP UTAH

Spent my labor day exploring some lakes on the Boulder top. The weather was great, roads were rough and fishing was good. I managed to fish 3 different lakes; one of them was hike in only. 

I am not the most knowledgeable lake fisherman but the fishing in these lakes can be very finicky. Do  not expect, just because most of these lakes do not receive a lot of pressure the fishing will be outstanding. Also with hard winters a lot of the lakes winter kill. 

A few pictures of the lakes I fished.

All of the lakes produced a bend in the rod with 12" Brook Trout fairly regularly when the bite was on. I did manage quite a few 14+ fish as well. I was not able to land into any tiger trout some of these lakes hold.

Cant wait to make it back to this area! Happy Fishing everyone!

BLACKFOOT RIVER

Made it out to the Blackfoot river for 2 days of fishing. With so many fires in the area the smoke was very thick much worse than last year. This did not stop me from fishing. The weather has been warm and not any rain at all, which made the fish stop feeding after lunch. So you had to get to the water as early as possible.

The scenery is unreal floating this river....

The highlight of the trip was landing a 22" Brown, earlier in the morning I had another fish snap off 3x fluorocarbon which was frustrating but this fish made up for it.

Video of landing & releasing this nice brown trout!

https://youtu.be/1rXYJtVmvRc

https://youtu.be/RFhNfng0Zfo

The rest of the fish we anywhere from 12" to 17" range, Westslope Cutts, Cut-bows & Rainbows

Happy fishing everyone!

SOMEWHERE IN UTAH

With all the heat were experiencing here in Las Vegas; it was nice to get out of town and into the mountains. So far this year it has been hard for me to get out and do some fishing. Work, vacations, bad weather all have had a role in my decline in fishing days this year.

With a new rack on the Polaris razor, this allows us to make it up to some high country lakes; that are hard to access and also bring along the normal comforts of camping.

A couple of the lakes I fished, I did not bring the float tube on this trip, which would have made fishing much easier.

I did manage a variety of fish,cutthroat, grayling and brook.

Happy 4th of July to everyone!

UTAH 3-18-17

With the recent warm streak in the high country, I figured it would not be a bad idea to jump in the side by side and do some exploring of some of the lakes below the Griffith Top. Most of the typical fisheries will need a couple of more weeks to fully be free of ice and be fishable. I did manage to find 1 small lake that held some Tigers/Rainbows!

Still holding about 90% ICE!

My 1st lake fish of the year!

Until next time.......